Anyone have contact with Microsoft network ops? They've blackholed my SMTP (204.11.50.134) (which is used by me and half a dozen other people, none of whom send spam), and my admin's on vacation and I don't wanna screw up his time off. This is obviously a false positive though.
heise+ | Digitale Verwaltung: Statt Schriftform soll bald meistens eine Mail genügen
Schriftformerfordernisse sind ein Endgegner für die Digitalisierung. Nun wagt die Politik einen Befreiungsschlag: Behörden sollen normale Mails akzeptieren.
heise+ | Tschüss, Big Tech: Acht sichere E-Mail-Alternativen aus Europa im Vergleich
Gmail, iCloud, Outlook – die größten E-Mail-Anbieter sitzen in den USA. Mit diesen europäischen Alternativen erklären Sie Ihre digitale Unabhängigkeit.
Google’s Gemini A.I. now scans your entire inbox to “help” you summarize, reply & organize. 📬
That’s not assistance — that’s surveillance wrapped in productivity branding. 🔍
If your emails need an opt‑out clause, maybe the feature shouldn’t exist by default. ⚠️
I’m seeing more and more companies going #passwordless by removing the option for a password and just sending a #totp one time password via #email.
I’m not a #security researcher (just a lowly software engineer), but this feels like they are making my account less secure and my email inbox an even greater target.
Eine aktuelle Studie des Digitalverbands Bitkom zeigt: Berufstätige in Deutschland erhalten durchschnittlich 53 E-Mails pro Arbeitstag - ein neuer Rekordwert und eine Verdoppelung innerhalb von nur vier Jahren.
Auf dem Bild ist die Apple-E-Mail-App mit 6.753 Benachrichtigungen zu sehen. Im Bild steht: "Die Anzahl der beruflichen E-Mails in deutschen Postfächern hat sich in nur vier Jahren verdoppelt und liegt jetzt bei durchschnittlich 53 pro Tag."
Neuer Höchststand: Deutschlands Berufstätige bekommen pro Tag über 50 E-Mails
Die Mailflut in den beruflichen Postfächern wächst, allein seit 2021 hat sich die Zahl der täglichen Mails verdoppelt. Wie wichtig die alle sind, ist unklar.
I haven't followed Thunderbird Pro development super closely, but it looks like they've locked in a price. Is this a new detail? At any rate, I'd definitely pay $9/month for a hosted Thunderbird email plan with 30GB of storage, 15 email addresses, and 3 custom domains. (The 300GB of Send Storage also feels fair).
EDIT: I'd probably never USE 3 custom domains, though... maybe that's overkill for most normal users.
Pricing card for an "Early Bird Plan" showing $9 per month (paid annually) with a "Join Waitlist" button and features: 30 GB mail storage, 300 GB send storage, 15 email addresses, and 3 custom domains.
Das wifielste Argument ist es um M$ so wie deren E-Mail Client nicht zu nutzen?!?? Ach ja, niemensch hat ja was zu verbergen!1!!
»Microsoft bestätigt — #Update blockiert #Verschlüsselung in Outlook:
Nutzer von Outlook Classic stoßen derzeit auf ein Problem: Verschlüsselte #EMail's lassen sich unter Umständen nicht öffnen. #Microsoft hat jetzt bestätigt, dass der Fehler mit einer Aktualisierung von Microsoft #Outlook 365 zusammenhängt.«
Starting January 2026, If you use Gmail to check and fetch external email accounts, fetching emails from third-party accounts into your Gmail account, with POP, will no longer be supported.
You will need to migrate your email data into a Google Workspace account. At some point, the option to "Check mail from other accounts" will no longer be available in Gmail
You can continue to read and send emails from your other accounts in the Gmail app for Android, iPhone, and iPad, which uses a standard IMAP connection #Google#Email#Gmail
Learn about upcoming changes to Gmailify & POP in Gmail
Starting January 2026, Gmail will no longer provide support for the following features:
Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organization applied to your third-party email account. Learn more about Gmailify.
Check mail from other accounts: Fetching emails from third-party accounts into your Gmail account, with POP, will no longer be supported.
What do Fedi people think about #Posteo email service? I'm pondering my choices in case of degoogling and finding a good email provider isn't easy.
Here's my criteria:
It's an email provider. Not everything-you-never-needed in one ugly unwieldy box and a stupid AI on the side.
I don't care about so called privacy and encryption, it's a marketing fad. These services are just huge targets for governmental blocking. So wherever you cool hackers are, I'm staying away. I want to be with common people. I don't want to be a collateral damage.
I don't care about Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, etc. Whatever I write on the Internet could be written on the wall, for everything else there is PGP.
I care about respectability and stability. So this service has to be in business for at least 10 years and not run by a group of enthusiasts.
POP3/IMAP support without restrictions.
So this leaves me with two options: #Fastmail and #Posteo
Fastmail is great, I used it in the past when it was twenty something dollars a year, but now it's too expensive. $5 a month and most features are overkill. 60Gb of space is ten times more than all my working documents combined.
Posteo is cheap and affordable, 2Gb is more than enough. But I don't really know if it's good and reliable.
Other sane alternatives are welcome, of course. #Email
"Our Cloud-based Email Serves Their Purpose" 👀👏
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